>>I created a laucher application using VFP 5.0 which consist of simple program to run a form that consist of multi command buttons to execute the sub applications (EXE's).
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>>My problem is that once I click on one of the buttons it executes the related sub application and then closes the sub application & the launcher applicatoion.
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>>I noticed that the sub application is not recognizing the READ EVENTS command, WHY?
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>Hi Nabil,
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>I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that each EXE would require it's own READ EVENTS. Also, if the only place the sub applications will be launched from is your launcher EXE make all your sub applications .APP files. Smaller than EXE's.

All my EXE's contain a READ EVENTS command.

I cannot use APP's because I may have the same public variable name set for different sub application which will create a conflict.